An-My Lê

An-My Lê (born in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1960) came to the United States as a political refugee at age fifteen. She received her BAS and an MS in biology from Stanford University before earning an MFA in photography from Yale University. Two monographs of her work have been previously published: Small Wars (APERTURE, 2005) and Events Ashore (APERTURE, 2014). Lê’s work has been widely exhibited, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Lê has received many awards, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation. She is a professor in the Department of Photography at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. Lê is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery.

Photography

A shallow river with green grasses and trees on its banks winds through a landscape of dry grass and and dirt roads. Parked cars and trucks appear along the side of the bank at right, and the passengers stand or sit outside.

In Dialogue: An-My Lê and Viet Thanh Nguyen

An-My Lê and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen address the ways in which Lê’s work complicates the landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity.

An-My Lê

In Dialogue: An-My Lê and Viet Thanh Nguyen

By An-My Lê May 15, 2020